Well, they don’t need to be invincible to survive a fall. Just tough with regenerative powers which they are/have. Even humans irl can survive some pretty nasty drops though not without 3rd party medical intervention. Trolls are their own ambulance.

D&D trolls have had many incarnations and degrees of “regenerability”. Lately, the common accepted tale is that written and propagated by R.a. Salvatore (writer and creator of Drizzit) who specify that trolls behave like sea sponges. This way they can become a hundred different entities by slicing them to bits. There is even a part of the books that mention dogs and carnivores avoid troll meat because the new trolls can grow inside of them and rip them to shreds from inside-out.

I doubt those trolls are like that, with the amazing exception of Harky who can come back from the dead.

Funny story about that in Warhammer Fantasy. Grom the Paunch, a goblin war boss actually eat a plate of troll flesh and spent the next few weeks battling it in his stomach until he finally managed to win out.

Yes. In old-school D&D, where some anal DMs made you actually track your food stores, “troll rations” were a common solution. Take a cut of troll meat and trap it in an iron ration so that it couldn’t grow past a certain point. Open, cut some off, close, cook, eat, repeat.

Yeah, that’s kind of gross and cannibalistic, but playing racist, genocidal murderhobos (aka adventurers) has always been morally dubious business.

That is sort of the point I think. Much as I dislike the Gastonian side seeing as how the World’s Rebellion is made up of races screwed over by humans, it is plenty likely that your average Joe Hugh Mann is just trying to get by and just gets caught up in all the propaganda of “Trolls are murderous liars who want to eat your kids” and etc.

Aren’t troll murderers ? See what they did when they went to that village Byron and Gravy went ? And when Gravedust tried to speak with the souls there ? Or when they went to Elves’ Forest and attacked anyone on sight, soldiers and civilians alike ? Men and women alike ?

What did the Elves do for that ? SO I think the “murderous part” is right, concerning Trolls.

I’m under the firm belief that we are all murderers, given a motivation and half a chance. Not saying war is always unnecessary, but with our backs against the wall, we will all kill for what we think is right.
Given a motivation, a means, and a buddy, we will all raze a city, kill the citizens and loot the bodies while the world burns.

People tend to do that, yeah, but in my opinion, war is always unnecessary. It weakens both sides, makes them poorer and creates paranoïa within their population. It only benefits to third parties, the ones that sells weapons or items your war doesn’t allow you to produce anymore, or that you can’t buy elsewhere because of an embargo.

See, in my opinion, War is never necessary for the reasons it’s fought. However, it’s completely necessary.

War is about the only way the Human Race is allowed to Cull itself. We have no natural predators that keep our numbers in check- aside from ourselves. There’s nothing keeping us from avoiding starvation- aside from ourselves. It’s terrible, but if you think about it, the more depraved and inhumane the actions of individual soldiers when they take a town, or a country, or a continent, the better for the human race as a whole- because those who survive are the strongest we have. Those who survive will learn from what happened, and will pass that down to their children.

I’m not speaking in the purely physical, either- though that is a large part of it. It’s also Emotionally, mentally, culturally.

Except that it’s the opposite of true, and the places in the world with lowest violent mortality rates, the most wealth, and the highest standards of living are the ones with the lowest (or negative) population growth.

Many of those places also control the population by arguably unethical government policies, and most of them completely forbid immigration unless you, yourself, are already absurdly wealthy. In many cases they also charge immense, absurd tariffs and have generally xenophobic and/or nationalistic cultural attitudes and resist globalization to protect their little paradise at the cost of the rest of the world, because, you know, they’re better than everyone else. Just like ancient Greece or Rome (sans imperialism).

This is one of those pages where I really have to question if it was necessary to include it at all. Yes, it’s very pretty and moderately funny and haha we’re all name-calling jerks, but you’ve hammered that in with however many chapters already and this page just feels superfluous.

Au contraire… the moments of nothing, they’re like beat panels in regular comics, but on a grander scale. Fleeting and beautiful, they give us a break from constant plot at every moment, which is always a little heavy. :)

Plus, there’s some exposition in the beginning. We now know for sure that the savage races are attacking an area that is currently human-occupied (there was some confusion about that on the last page), and that the land was originally taken from the gnolls by the humans.

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